“The President Had No Friends” On His Way to Senate Impeachment Trial
In the 1860s, Harpers was the most influential weekly newspaper in the country. It was allied with the Republican Party and would back Grant for…
Tourism Up at Andy Johnson Home in Response to Current Impeachment Crisis
The current impeachment crisis has been good for tourism to the home of the first president ever impeached, Andrew Johnson. You can listen to NPR’s…
March 4, 1868 the House of Representatives Serves the Johnson Articles of Impeachment on the Senate
Illustration Above: Members of the House of Representatives walking as a group to the Senate for the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson March 4, 1868 after…
Election of First African American to Serve in U.S. Senate to Be Commemorated in Mississippi
According to the Meridian Star: Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the historic election of Hiram Revels as…
Oregon Legislature Demands Its Senators Resign for Supporting Impeachment & Reconstruction Acts Dec. 1868
The Oregon state legislature passed a resolution calling for its senators to resign because they “misrepresented” the state by supporting the Reconstruction Acts and the…
What Everyone Should Know About Reconstruction
There is an article that originally appeared on The Conversation which is now getting republished on a number of sites, most recently on Salon. Authored…
National Military Asylums Cared for 4,000 Disabled Veterans in 1868
After the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were left suffering from war wounds, or were still afflicted by diseases contracted in the service….
Reconstruction Era Virginia Village of Willisville Settled by Freed Slaves Placed on National Register of Historic Places
The African American settlement of Willisville in Loudoun County Virginia was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in December. Willisville was a free Black…
Congratulating Virginia for Rejecting Black Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment January 1867
On January 9, 1867 Virginia rejected the proposed 14th Amendment. The Amendment granted United States citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including former…
Book Review-Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid: African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619–2019 by Eugene DeFriest Bétit (2019)
Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid: African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619–2019 by Eugene DeFriest Bétit (2019) This recent book by Eugene Betit traces the…